Disaster
Unemployment Assistance Available to Hurricane Zeta Survivors
NEW
ORLEANS — Disaster Unemployment Assistance (DUA) is now available to
certain workers in Orleans Parish who lost income as a direct result
of Hurricane Zeta. The purpose of DUA is to help workers whose primary
incomes are lost or interrupted by a federally declared disaster. DUA may
be available if the disaster affected your employment — even if you’re
self-employed, a farmer or a farm worker — and you fall under one of the
following categories:
- Your workplace was damaged
or destroyed by the disaster
- Transportation to work was
unavailable as a direct result of the disaster
- You could not get to your
job because you had to travel through the disaster area
- The disaster prevented you
from starting a new job
- Your business suffered
because you relied on the disaster area for most of its income
- You cannot work due to an
injury caused as a direct result of the major disaster
- You became the breadwinner
or major household support because the head of your household died as
a direct result of the disaster
- You became unemployed as a
direct result of the disaster
Affected
workers must first apply for regular unemployment insurance prior to
starting a DUA application. Apply by visiting www.laworks.net, the Helping
Individuals Reach Employment portal. Apply for disaster unemployment
assistance by Feb. 12.
Claimants may
also file by telephone by calling the Benefits Analysis Team at
866-783-5567 from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. from Monday through Friday and 8 a.m. to
5 p.m. Sunday.
For the latest
information on Hurricane Zeta, visit https://www.fema.gov/disaster/4577.
Follow the FEMA Region 6 Twitter account at twitter.com/FEMARegion6.
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